INTERVIEW WITH LEGENDARY DRAG QUEEN ADRIAN

SHE OF CLUB 82 AND ADRIAN AND THE DANCE OF THE SEVEN VEILS FAME:

AN EXCERPT:




Did you hustle?

A lot of people made money by hustling. I never did, I wasn’t used to hustling. Only did it a few times, I had a “fry pan freak” named Jackson. He only got his kick getting hit in the head with a frying pan, no sex.

Really? Did you have to hit him hard?

Well, I bought this cast-iron frying pan, which I still have, and I had to tip him like I was knighting him. And he said, “Adrian, you have to hit me harder.” And I said, “I can’t.” And this was like, 6 o’clock in the morning on 69th Street. And I said, “No, I’m not your person.” There was a guy named Chicki Raymond, he was as hard as nails. So I gave him the address and the phone number.

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Me on the cover of a 1985 japanese 'zine trying to work my own hair. And what a rotten angle! But at least I only had one chin back then!